We have done all this in 20 years…. I still believe we must heal the Spirit first. If your Spirit is dead, how can you get on with life or care? Heal Spirit first– Build self-confidence, self-esteem.

People’s mind can dwell on knowledge and skills once Soul is quiet and they can see connection of education with everything else, especially the benefits.

Once they have calm and sense of identity, direction, they have tools to live in modern world & take advantage of what it has to offer

With education, skills and learning they can improve their health and physical world.

To date, I have done thirty-two presentations on parts or all of the Rainbow/Holistic Approach – to approximately fifteen hundred Learners, Elders and practitioners, in most provinces and territories, as well as in Atlanta, Georgia, Australia, and Brazil. Today’s presentation makes it thirty-three. Twenty-five of those have been by invitation because people have heard about the work. Another two speaking engagements are lined up, including one in France at a First Nations Forum in February 2003, and another to educators at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

The Rainbow
Red is the first colour of the rainbow, and the colour understood by some Aboriginal cultures to mean confidence, which has within it the knowing, the ability to plan, to start a process. Red represents the language of origin of First Nations individuals and/or communities.

Since time immemorial, Aboriginal Peoples have lived on this land. We believe that the Creator put us here. Our ancestors did NOT cross the Bering Strait. We had our own Aboriginal languages. A December 14, 1998, press release from Statistics Canada entitled, The Daily says that, as of 1996, Canada has fifty Aboriginal languages, belonging to eleven major language families. In the past one hundred years or more, nearly ten once flourishing languages have become extinct. At least a dozen are on the brink of extinction.

There are special initiatives in the Aboriginal community to keep our languages alive. The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommends granting special status to Aboriginal languages, providing formal education in the language, and conducting research (Norris). The First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres (FNCECC) is in the initial stages of developing protective legislation for the preservation, maintenance, promotion, and use of Aboriginal languages in Canada. We need to pool our energies to help each other save Aboriginal languages.